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  • January

    COCHITI LAKE, N.M. -- Ned Lundquist poses with his life jacket and kayak after his experience on the lake.

    Expect the Unexpected: A Life-Jacket Success Story

    Even in remarkable, cold-water situations, life jackets save lives. The following incident gives a clear illustration of why the Corps focuses so much on the use of life jackets.
  • Jeff Cusano is the District lead for the Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS) — an expanding technical initiative incorporating geographical features and tabular data to map, analyze and assess real-world problems that supports multiple District missions.

    Army Corps Senior Geographer receives Commander’s Award for Civilian Service

    Jeff Cusano (PL-E), a senior geographer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New York District with over 20 years’ experience creating maps, has received the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service for superior service and exceptional devotion to the District’s Planning Division.
  • On April 30, 2013, the garrison chaplain met with the FED construction team and the construction contractor, and held a prayer ceremony on the freshly placed floor slab of Chapel #1 in lieu of a traditional groundbreaking.

    Nearly completed chapel cheers chaplain, community

    The first of four new chapels is nearly completed on Camp Humphreys, and is slated to be put into use by mid-2016.
  • During the summers of 2010 and 2011, the Kenaitze Indian Tribe work crew demolished Wildwood Air Force Station's Buildings 100 and 101. The project was made possible by the Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program and conducted through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District.

    Unique federal program cleans tribal lands, creates jobs in Alaska

    For nearly 40 years, Wildwood Air Force Station’s buildings 100 and 101 stood as abandoned relics of the Department of Defense. Now, the demolition of the facilities and other restorative projects on the same land are providing a local federally recognized native tribe with new opportunities.
  • ABIQUIU LAKE, N.M. -- Scott Bol, volunteer with the New Mexico Wildlife Center, displays the center’s captive non-releasable bald eagle to volunteers before they begin counting wild eagles around the lake, Jan. 9, 2016.

    Volunteers Turnout to Count Eagles

    More than four dozen volunteers came out to count eagles Sat. Jan. 9, 2016, at Abiquiu Lake during its annual Midwinter Eagle Watch. We recorded eight bald eagles and two golden eagles, said Austin Kuhlman, Lead Park Ranger at Abiquiu Dam.